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On 4/29/2013 5:06 AM, Mikhail Krutov wrote:
> ~ 5 seconds on kinda sligthly better machine;
> ~ 0.1 seconds if I move ~/.mozilla to tmpfs (which is a kludge and which
> sucks)

What if you make it a gmirror with a ramdisk, with the mirror syncing on 
boot and preferring the ramdisk?  It's still a hack, but is it more 
manageable?